The Galloping Ghost

The Galloping Ghost (1931)

AN ALL-TALKING SERIAL IN 12 CHAPTERS

A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.

Date of release
1931-09-01
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
3h 46m
Genres
Action
Director
B. Reeves Eason, Armand Schaefer

Casting

Interesting facts

The Galloping Ghost is a 1931 American pre-Code Mascot serial film co-directed by B. Reeves Eason and Benjamin H. Kline. The title is the nickname of the star, real life American football player Red Grange. Serial historian Raymond William Stedman lists Lon Chaney Jr. as appearing in Ghost in a small uncredited part as a henchman, but this has never been verified.

Production

Grange received this starring role thanks to his business manager, and theater owner, Frank Zambrino. The serial took three weeks to film and Grange earned $4,500 overall.

Director B. Reeves Eason was reportedly fired during filming and replaced by the uncredited Benjamin H. Kline.

This serial was filmed at a time before "stuntmen did mostly everything" which meant that Grange had to do a lot of his own stunts.

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